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| Death of inmate during California prison melee is second in a week |
| By latimes.com- Paige St. John |
| Published: 08/20/2015 |
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A second inmate has died in the last week during fighting at a California state prison, this time shot by a guard's rifle even as he was stabbed by other inmates, officials said Wednesday. The latest outbreak, a dining-hall melee at the California Correctional Center in Susanville, was the fifth violent episode in a state prison after the Aug. 12 killing of notorious inmate Hugo Pinell and a subsequent riot in a prison near Sacramento. Inmate Jonathan Velarde was shot by an officer's rifle during a dining hall riot Sunday at a prison near Susanville, state corrections officials said. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) “There is nothing unusual about the frequency of these disturbances, and there are no correlations between the incidents,” corrections department spokeswoman Dana Simas said in an email. Read More. |
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